Installing PDF IFilter on W2K8

I have been having a heck of a time trying to get PDFs to index on myMOSS 2003 SP1 farm that is on the W2K8 Enterprise OS.

I have tried a few approaches and none have worked.

I would like to eliminate W2K8 as the issue, so my question is hasanyone installed the PDF IFilter on W2K8 with MOSS 2007? If so, whatprocedure did you follow to install it and did you have any issues?

I have attempted:

1. Installing Acrobat Reader 9.0 on all farm servers. Alsoadded .pdf file type. Performed a full crawl. If I search for theterm 'pdf' I get a list of the pdfs in my sites. This makes sensesince the file name contains 'pdf'. Examining the crawl log showsthe pdf files as being hit.

2. Uninstalled Acrobat Reader 9.0 from all farm servers. InstalledAcrobat Reader 8.0 and followed the instructions from this site:blogs.msdn.com/.../indexing-pdf-documents-with-adobe-reader-v-8-and-moss-2007.aspxThis basically gave me the same results as #1.

My next thought is to install just the IFilter 6.0 version, but Ithought I would check here first.

What version of Adobe iFilter are you using? I believe the new version 8.0 iscompatible with 64-bit. I recently installed 6.0 on 32-bit using theinstructions on the link below and did not have any issues. blog.tylerholmes.com/.../...ling-adobe-v6-pdf.html

Here is an update on the issue. My environment is 32-bit with twoWFE and one application server. Rechecked the installing of AcrobatReader 8.0 following instructions atblogs.msdn.com/.../indexing-pdf-documents-with-adobe-reader-v-8-and-moss-2007.aspx

I noticed that I did not select a Windows Sharepoint Services searchserver on Manage Content Database Settings page. So I selected mysearch server. I don't understand the reason for this, especiallysince I only have one search server.

I performed a full crawl and again Acrobat docs were not showing upin a search query.

Next, I decided to remove the content database and reattach it. Iset the search server once again and reset all crawled content. Thenperformed another full crawl.

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